"I Want What's Best"

Double Denim

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True to their name, Liverpool's Outfit have tried on a couple of looks since first appearing in summer 2011; their superb early singles had an incredibly smooth Roxy Music-meets-Franz Ferdinand noir feel to them, while their 2012 Another Nights Dreams Reach Earth Again EP leaned towards R&B and made a few slight misfires. For the first single from their forthcoming debut album, Performance, they've returned to a palette of spookily intoned, almost-dispassionate layered vocals, which, along with the steadily high-chiming piano, evoke visits to Hot Chip's house, teamed with the shimmering crack and wibble of Harmonia 76 and Brian Eno's Tracks and Traces.

It's incredibly hypnotic and gently ascendent, possessed of an unsettling calm. "Imagine everyone you could become," they chant before succumbing to several dozen rounds of repeating the title. But if they stick with this version of themselves, they could really be onto something.